recordings

Life's a Beach (2006) This is the new studio recording from the 51st Eight. It was recorded June 19 and 20th at Rock Beach Studios in White Rock. The tracks include a lot of your 51st Eight favourites as well as some new additions to the songbook. Get ready to swing, stomp, and ... rhumba?!? Tracks: 1. Basin Street Stomp 2. Sweet Lorraine 3. A Smo-o-o-oth One 4. The Chant 5. My Blue Heaven 6. Louisiana 7. Wolverine Blues 8. Just A Gigolo 9. Kansas City Stomps 10. My Heart Belongs to Daddy 11. Honey Hush 12. My Honey's Lovin' Arms 13. Tin Roof Blues 14. South Rampart Street Parade The CD is now available from any live show or the Online Store.

Personnel: Bria Skonberg - trumpet, vocals 5, 10 Evan Arntzen - saxes, vocals 2, 11 Colin Farquhar - clarinet, sax, vocal 12 Luke Matheson - trombone, vocal 8 Vashti Gray - piano Josh Roberts - banjo, guitar Georgia Korba - bass Jeremy Roberts - drums

Live at the Hot Jazz, Worth the Weight, and Eight to the Bar are also available at The 51st Eight Online Store or at any 51st Eight performance.

Note: We are very proud of all the recordings we sell and we want you to enjoy the product as much as we did creating it. Occasionally, there are technical errors during CD replication. While these are extremely rare, if you notice anything abnormal during playback on your copy please email us and we will happily resolve the issue.

2005 - Worth the Weight

Tunes:

Riverboat Shuffle

Stompin' at the Savoy

Sweet Georgia Brown

Stardust

I've Found A New Baby

Horizontal

Algiers Strut

Black Bottom Stomp

Teach Me Tonight

Swing That Music

Creole Love Call

Tiger Rag

Personnel:

Bria Skonberg - trumpet, vocals
Colin Farquhar - clarinet, vocals
Evan Arntzen - alto sax, tenor sax, vocals
Lukas Matheson - trombone, vocals
Vashti Gray - piano
Josh Roberts - banjo, guitar
Georgia Korba - string bass
Jeremy Roberts - drums

Recorded by Simon Stribling at Holy Mackerel Studios
Mixed by Jef Gibbons and Colin Farquhar at Blueshift Productions

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2004 - Eight to the Bar

Tunes:

1. Panama
2. Some of These Days
3. Sunday
4. Avalon
5. Mahogany Hall Stomp
6. Everybody Loves My Baby
7. Do You Know What it Means...
8. Potato Head Blues
9. Lulu's Back In Town
10. Oh, Lady Be Good
11. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
12. West End Blues
13. Emperor Norton's Hunch

Personnel:

Bria Skonberg - trumpet, vocals
Colin Farquhar - clarinet, alto sax, vocals
Evan Arntzen - alto sax, tenor sax, vocals
Lukas Matheson - trombone, vocals
Vashti Gray - piano
Josh Roberts - banjo, guitar
Georgia Korba - string bass
Jeremy Roberts - drums

Recorded by Simon Stribling at Holy Mackerel Studios
Mixed by Jef Gibbons and Colin Farquhar at Blueshift Productions

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2003 - Open to Interpretation (no longer available)

Tunes:

1. That's A Plenty
2. Dinah
3. Mississippi Mud
4. I Would Do Anything For You
5. Basin Street Blues
6. Bei Mir Bist Du Schon
7. Lazy River
8. Isle of Capri
9. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down...
10. Wolverine Blues

Personnel:

Bria Skonberg - trumpet, vocals
Colin Farquhar - clarinet, vocals
Evan Arntzen - tenor sax
Lukas Matheson - trombone, vocals
Vashti Gray - piano
Josh Roberts - banjo, guitar
Brock Rutley - tuba
Jeremy Roberts - drums, gong

Simon Stribling, 2nd trumpet & solo on track 8

Recorded by Simon Stribling at Holy Mackerel Studios

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2002 - No Fun Intended (no longer available)

Tunes:

1. The Chant
2. Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue
3. Avalon
4. Bourbon Street Parade
5. Muskrat Ramble
6. St. James Infirmary
7. Original Dixieland One Step
8. Red Hot Mama
9. Royal Garden Blues
10. When The Saints Go Marching In

Personnel:

Bria Skonberg - trumpet, vocals
Colin Farquhar - clarinet
Evan Arntzen - tenor sax
Lukas Matheson - trombone, vocals
Vashti Gray - piano
Josh Roberts - banjo, guitar
Brock Rutley - sousaphone, vocals
Jeremy Roberts - drums

Recorded and mixed by Colin Farquhar

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